---
type: "Bill"
title: "Local units of government authorized to conduct criminal background checks under certain circumstances."
description: "Local units of government authorized to conduct criminal background checks under certain circumstances."
jurisdiction: "us/states/mn"
legislature: "Minnesota Legislature"
session: "2025-2026"
identifier: "HF 286"
citation: "Minnesota HF 286 (2025-2026)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: ["Governmental Operations-Local", "Public Safety Department"]
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: ["Perryman"]
version_count: 2
action_count: 27
vote_count: 1
first_action: "2025-02-10"
last_action: "2025-08-01"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/0953f416-10e7-44c1-b528-f814e2a95bdb"
source_url: "https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/286?list=open&body=House"
source_hash: "814bdd489cffc7a429e1f88f6fe116b7d72974d4ee2d3cb622bae3b201f07e85"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-mn"]
---

# Minnesota HF 286 (2025-2026) — Local units of government authorized to conduct criminal background checks under certain circumstances.

## Version chain

The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.

1. **1st Engrossment** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/286/versions/1/)
2. **Introduction** (committee substitute) — [source](https://www.revisor.mn.gov/bills/94/2025/0/HF/286/versions/0/)

## Votes

- Passage — **132–0** (pass) · lower

## Sponsors

- Perryman — primary (person)
- Bahner — cosponsor (person)
- Curran — cosponsor (person)
- Engen — cosponsor (person)
- Howe — cosponsor (person)
- Kotyza-Witthuhn — cosponsor (person)
- Pursell — cosponsor (person)
- Robbins — cosponsor (person)
- Tabke — cosponsor (person)
- Virnig — cosponsor (person)

## Timeline

The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.

- **2025-02-10** Introduction and first reading, referred to Public Safety Finance and Policy `introduction, referral-committee`
- **2025-02-13** Authors added Curran, Engen and Tabke
- **2025-02-17** Committee report, to adopt and re-refer to Elections Finance and Government Operations `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-24** Author added Virnig
- **2025-02-26** Committee report, to adopt as amended `committee-passage`
- **2025-02-26** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2025-03-05** House rule 1.21, placed on Calendar for the Day Thursday, March 6, 2025
- **2025-03-06** Third reading `reading-3`
- **2025-03-06** Bill was passed `passage`
- **2025-03-06** Authors added Robbins, Kotyza-Witthuhn, and Pursell
- **2025-03-10** Author added Bahner
- **2025-05-05** Returned from Senate
- **2025-05-13** Presented to Governor 05/13/2025 `executive-receipt`
- **2025-05-15** Governor approval 05/15/2025 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-15** Secretary of State, Filed 05/15/2025
- **2025-03-10** Received from House `introduction`
- **2025-03-10** Introduction and first reading `introduction`
- **2025-03-10** Referred to Judiciary and Public Safety `referral-committee`
- **2025-03-24** Comm report: To pass and re-referred to State and Local Government `committee-passage, referral-committee`
- **2025-04-01** Comm report: To pass `committee-passage`
- **2025-04-01** Second reading `reading-2`
- **2025-05-05** Special Order
- **2025-05-05** Third reading Passed `passage`
- **2025-05-13** Presentment date 05/13/25
- **2025-05-15** Governor's action Approval 05/15/25 `executive-signature`
- **2025-05-15** Secretary of State Chapter 22 05/15/25
- **2025-08-01** Effective date 08/01/2025

## Source

OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/0953f416-10e7-44c1-b528-f814e2a95bdb`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Minnesota legislature records).